Pleased to report that I have been paid in cold hard pounds sterling for a Fast and Fair review job. Just like when I was in the clinic: payment for professional advice. Money has a purpose and this is it. Better than vouchers, crypto or Brownie points because I can do what I want with it.

Check out New York Times coverage of our full website launch! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

Just merged a pull request from @ctrue.bsky.social into @bonej.org 's master branch solving a long-standing CI annoyance (🙏). Weirdly, Anthropic's Claude LLM has inserted text claiming that it is a co-author. One should use the best tools for the job (e.g. IDEs), but tools are not authors.

Interested in trying BoneJ+ with accelerated GPU processing? Drop us a DM to get a free @beancounter.ch voucher to try it out!

📢 Release alert! BoneJ+ 0.0.20 brings stability to GPU checking on Windows and belatedly bumps the minimum Java version to 17. Check it out! Drop us a DM to get a tester voucher from @beancounter.ch

Based in Ireland and work with imaging? @microscopyirl.bsky.social & Core Facilities Network Ireland are making the case to government for an Irish @eurobioimaging.bsky.social node. Take our short survey by June 25th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please RT! 🙏 #Microscopy #Bioimaging

📢 Release alert! radius-r0 uses Scijava Datasets as the image format for input-output, and harmonises all the plugins to use the same results table. Scripting users will need to update their scripts to use Dataset and SharedTable; internally, functionality is the same.

IOB "This study applies #biomaterials/imaging techniques to #wildlife forensics, using micro-computed #tomography to forensically analyse bullet-induced damage in a unique collection of helmeted hornbill skull specimens..." doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Chan et al #birds #biology #organisms

It's World Swift Day! ❤️ Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year. When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going! They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.

New pedestrian traffic lights in front of the main building at #UniJena and at two other locations highlight Jena's status as a centre for science and research; instead of the traditional traffic light figure, they feature a walking microscope. ➡️ rathaus.jena.de/en/citizens-b…

Emblème de l'animation suisse, Pingu célèbre ses 40 ans

Who would have thought that people would be incentivised by being paid for their expert opinions? It's normal to pay for professional services. Hopefully the big for-profit players will wake up and realise that they will have to pay too, to maintain their "premium" reputations.

Peatlands are powerful. Here are just a few reasons why… 1. Peatland vegetation slows the flow of rainfall which helps reduce the risk of flooding in nearby towns and villages. Peatlands only cover around 3% of the world's surface but contains more carbon than all the world's rainforests.

📢 Big news in OA publishing. Open Research Europe will open up to researchers in 11 European countries. No APC fee to authors as long as any one author of the work is affiliated to an institution in a participating country, regardless of funding. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/blog/this-au...

Beautiful.

LLMs need detailed oversight. Mine sometimes proposes Java and OpenCL methods that don't exist; others cite literature that was never written. Looks plausible != is true.

These cows have got the right idea. Nothing like the sea breeze and a paddle to cool down.

@bonej.org has been supporting the bone research community for over 15 years. Ever since the early days of the project, there have been lots of other uses. Check out this paper that used BoneJ for measuring basalt rock formation on the Moon 🌕, from the Chang'e-5 mission! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Intersection of the food tube with the air tube at the larynx is a nasty evolutionary hangover, with life-threatening consequences. Why not two separate tubes for two different functions, eating and breathing? Check out this paper on how toothed whales have solved it.

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

"the design of Facebook's and Instagram's online interfaces, which may exploit the vulnerabilities and inexperience of minors, leading to addictive behaviour and reinforcing the so-called ‘rabbit hole' effects"

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

Committee. Unnecessary duplication, letters turning up just to be seen to be doing something.

If for a scientist, "writing is thinking" (which I agree with, having done quite a bit of it), is an LLM that synthesises sophisticated texts also thinking (as their GUIs have been programmed to make us believe)?

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity- Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award recognizes individuals advancing open source imaging software or hardware by making tools freely accessible, modifiable, and impactful. Nominate or apply by May 1, 2026! buff.ly/5DYr7UO

La France a dit "l'état, sur Linux". www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

🚨🔬🚨🔬🚨 We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open! 🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

1-year MRes projects at the RVC are open for application! I've got 2; 1 on combining experimental data with musculoskeletal simulations to understand how broiler chickens walk while growing, & 1 #DAWNDINOS choice of fossil critters to simulate: www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Good one. Figured out long ago that chasing glam rags is a fool's errand. Our job is to discover truth and disseminate it. Everything else is a wasteful distraction. *dissemination has been practically free for the last 30 years thanks to the Internet.

Celeste is in orbit!🚀 ESA’s first two #Celeste demo satellites have successfully launched on RocketLab’s Electron from New Zealand, starting tests of a complementary #LEO layer for #Galileo to boost resilience and unlock new PNT services. www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...

Great to see X-ray microtomography on @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues. ⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜 Join us! Apply!!! 🎉 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/AI-Exper...

We want to organize a learnathon to teach plugin development within #FIJI #scijava #imglib2 #BigDataViewer and other Big* parts of the Java ecosystem. Please spread the word, and if you know someone who can be interested, forward them the link below forum.image.sc/t/learnathon...

Chuck Norris, le mythique acteur de « Walker, Texas Ranger », est mort 

As a fan of both libraries and staircases this is a real kick. Are you open to contributions to #staircasesinlibraries from other libraries, @stabihh.bsky.social ?

Please share far & wide - the bestest, most heart warming thing you’ll see all day. Kakapo-Cam - watch one of the fattest, greenest, least able to fly, most endangered parrots in the world care for her young. Thnx @digs.bsky.social #kakapo #wildlife 🧪🧪 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

We have three neuroscience research software engineering jobs available at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, two joint with the Advanced Microscopy Facility. All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved

😂 Avoid Springer Nature - until they adopt fair business practices like paying for all labour they need for their (apparently) premium service. DYK only two people own half of the company?

How can we make sure community software projects that are delivering value are worth looking after from the developers' perspective? I've always found that being paid is highly motivating. Now there is a fair way for users to help developers keep going: @beancounter.ch

Taking (paid) requests to make enhancements to @bonej.org. What would make it better for you? Contact me for a quote.

📢 Release alert! BoneJ ulna-r10 brings much anticipated ROI support to Area/Volume Fraction. TV (TA) = pixel volume (area) in the ROI BV (BA) = foreground pixel volume (area) in the ROI Thanks to Sandra Shefelbine at Northeastern for commissioning development of this much-requested enhancement.

👀ICYMI: "Open source can be a powerful part of that answer. But if we care about open research, we should care just as much about the human experience of reuse as we do about the licence." #OpenResearch #OpenScience

Lasers cut precisely and without contact – ideal for surgery. But in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers led by Dr. Ferda Canbaz have now reported a breakthrough: They achieved cutting depths of up to 4.5 centimeters using a novel laser beam profile.

So essays - like other ways of testing knowledge and understanding - should not yield to AI slop. But they are vulnerable, because of the nature of the medium. A wise student, however, should see an essay question as an opportunity to explore, and not a chore to complete.

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61... #software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Yes and no. We focus on MDPI-Frontiers because if you drew a random SI you'd have a 70%+ chance of it being from them. But we also highlight that across all SIs at BMC, Springer, Roy Soc there's *similar* amounts of PISS. Delegating trust to guest editors has costs & should be done responsibly.